Welcome to Calculus IIMATH 152

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Objectives

This is a first year course in single-variable calculus, the second of the four courses in the calculus sequence. It is primarily intended for science, pre-engineering and mathematics majors, covering integral calculus and its applications.

Mathematics without calculus is limited to situations where important parts of the problem are either static or change in very restricted ways. However, with the development of the calculus integral, we can describe quantities that are continually changing. We can also find lengths, areas, and volumes of irregular shapes.

The material for this course will come from chapters 4-7 of the book. We will develop the following topics: integrals, inverse and transcendental functions, techniques of integration and applications of these topics.

In developing the tools to help accomplish this we will build on the mathematical skills from Calculus I; for some of you this may involve some review as well as new material.

This course meets Liberal Arts Objective 4a) of the college General Education requirements:
  • When presented with an analytical problem, students will choose an appropriate model with which to solve the problem, use quantitative techniques to arrive at a solution, and interpret their solution in writing.

In addition, at the end of the course, students should be able to meet the following learning objectives (these are only a selection of the objectives for the course). Students should be able to:
  • Describe integrals in terms of areas
  • Describe integrals in terms of antiderivatives
  • Evaluate basic integrals
  • State and interpret the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus
  • Evaluate integrals using basic substitutions
  • Identify which functions have inverses
  • Use the natural logarithms and exponential functions
  • Use inverse trigonometric functions
  • Use l'Hopital's Rule
  • Evaluate basic integrals using integration by parts
  • Evaluate basic integrals using trigonometric substitutions
  • Use partial fractions
  • Evaluate basic improper integrals
  • Set up and solve integrals using the disk and washer methods

Instructor

My name is Henry Suters and I have been teaching at Carson-Newman since 1994. I have a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Duke University and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Tennessee. I am married and have three children (triplets, almost 11 years old, two girls and a boy).